PM steps up religious crusade
By Brian Morris Australia has already been described as a ‘soft theocracy’. The question is, despite the public showing less religiosity, will a more overtly Christian […]
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Complicit in corruption reprint
Breaking news….well kind of. Company linked to alleged foreign bribery conspiracy in Nauru received $2.5m Australian government contract Shock horror. Our AFP have discovered corruption […]
Marketing Pixiedust
Regardless of the prognostications of politics in Australia, the ‘message’ delivered by politicians from the larger parties is always professional, well-rehearsed and well delivered. Even […]
ScoMo’s debut ruined by his own treachery
“You are a fucking mendicant,” Scott Morrison tells Tassie Treasurer, Peter Gutwein, reports Paul Bongiorno who quotes a Herald Sun article, Wednesday, citing “senior Liberal […]
Why is Melissa Price the Minister for the Environment?
First speeches in parliament can be revealing and so it was with the speech delivered by our new Minister for the Environment, Melissa Price, back in […]
Snippets from the darkside of the moon
Out of a habit that dates back to 1964, I still trot along to the local newsagent each Saturday morning to get my copy of […]
Scott Morrison – authentic or a populist opportunist?
The image spin doctors have decided to run with the line that Scott Morrison is an authentic daggy dad from the suburbs. Authentic is not […]
Valuing the Aspirational
Over the past few years, politicians, in general, have spoken of motivating those with an aspiration to better themselves across the country. The conservatives will […]
Stand up for what you believe !
I’m slightly suspicious about the motivation for a year 4 student to make an issue of not standing or singing Advance Australia Fair at school […]
Gutless wonders
Yesterday we were subjected to a disgusting abuse of parliamentary privilege by a man who feels his actions should be beyond scrutiny. Peter Dutton, outraged […]
What Can the Prime Muppet Do?
For Scott Morrison and his Muppet Coalition Government, time is fast approaching the nervy end of an election cycle. So far, he has given us […]
Slow Learners
By Ad Astra I’m using the term ‘slow learners’ not to demean those who suffer intellectual difficulties, but to categorize those with sound intellect who nonetheless […]
A “new generation” or a bunch of old Christians and young fogies?
When Tony Abbott first put his hand up for the Liberal Party leadership back in 2007 (withdrawing before the ballot), Paul Keating called him the […]
#SolidaritySunday
They say a week is a long time in politics. Australia has just proven three weeks is an eternity. Although the days of the Liberal […]
Manic Morrison in frantic, futile denial about bullying and climate and enemies.
Come on, come on Do the ScoMo-motion with me Ye-ye-ye-yeah … The Locomotion, by Little Eva. Bullying, standover tactics, sit-ins – allegations […]